Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Moderation "Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions." — Friedrich Nietzche
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Down & Dirty "Al Franken: Clinton's military did pretty well in Iraq, huh?
Paul Wolfowitz: Fuck You." — Humorist Al Franken and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz exchanging words at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner. Karen Croft, "The Fix," salon.com, 4-27-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "If you stay here much longer you'll be slitty-eyed." — Prince Philip, to British students in China
{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
An Iridescent Cloud Over Colorado
Credit & Copyright: August Allen
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
ON THIS DATE IN 1963
JFK'S FUNERAL
EVENTS
● 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his second daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
● 1120 - The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.
● 1177 - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
● 1491 - The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
● 1542 - Battle of Solway Moss. The English army defeats the Scots.
● 1667 - A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, Caucasia, killing 80,000 people.
● 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the British Isles, reaches its peak intensity and maintains it through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale.
● 1758 - French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
● 1758 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is founded.
● 1783 - Nearly three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris ending the American War for Independence, the last British soldiers evacuate New York City, their last military position. Following the withdrawal of the last British soldier, American General George Washington enters the city in triumph. {The British do however continue to maintain several forts in the US, this is one of the causes of the War of 1812 or the Second War of Independence.}
● 1795 - Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and exiled to Russia.
● 1809 - Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, mysteriously disappeared (or more likely murdered) in Perleberg.
● 1826 - The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
● 1839 - Cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland , taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
● 1857 - American adventurer William Walker launched a new invasion of a Central American country. The invasion failed; deposed as dictator of Nicaragua, Walker was returned, a prisoner, to New York.
● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge - At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
● 1864 - American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
● 1867 - Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. Later, feeling guilty, he uses the resulting enormous wealth to initiate and endow Nobel prizes, conferring honorees with enormous prestige and what is quite literally a lot of blood money.
● 1874 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
● 1876 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
● 1883 - Ten thousand black and white workers march together in labor parade, New Orleans.
● 1885 - Death of Mother Mary of the Immaculate Conception, CIC, first of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Louisiana), the second indigenous congregation of women in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
● 1904 - Birth of Jehan Mayoux, Charente, France. Teacher, pacifist, anti- militarist, anarchist, poet. Refused mobilization in 1939, costing him his teaching papers and five years imprisonment. Escaped but captured by Germans, and sent to a camp in the Ukraine. Later, opposed France's war with Algeria, signing the "Proclamation of the 121," and lost his teaching rights again (1960-1965). Participated in the May '68 uprising, but was nauseated by the attitude of the trade unions.
● 1904 - Birth of Pa Chin (Li Feigan). Chinese writer, discovered anarchism with the reading of Kropotkin and Emma Goldman, and created his pseudonym Pa (from Bakunin) and Chin (from Kropotkin). In 1949, he worked with the communists, rewrote his stories, removing or replacing his anarchist references with communist ones. But he is in disgrace by 1966, and again gains notoriety in 1976, in China and abroad, with novels now denouncing the communist system and the compromises he had made.
● 1905 - The Danish Prins Carl arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway
● 1910 - French anarchist Jules Durand sentenced to die for the death of a "jaune" in a brawl, for which he was wrongly blamed. International protests eventually led to his release three months later. Unfortunately, Durand, forcibly subdued in a strait jacket for 40 days, had become insane and spent the rest of his life in an asylum. A reopening of his case in 1918 cleared his name.
● 1911 - Mexico - Tierra y libertad demonstration, includes the anarchist Zapata.
● 1912 - The Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI) anarcho-syndicalist union formally founded in Modena. Within a year it has nearly 100,000 members.
● 1913 - Panama becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
● 1917 - Peace demonstrations in Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Mannheim, Stettin and elsewhere, Germany.
● 1918 - Vojvodina, former Austro-Hungarian crownland, proclaims its secession from this state to join the Kingdom of Serbia
● 1922 - Ex-libertarian socialist and syndicalist Benito Mussolini made dictator of Italy. Train timeliness and customer satisfaction soars.
● 1922 - Marcus Garvey electrifies a crowd at Liberty Hall in New York City as he states the goals and principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) - "We represent peace, harmony, love, human sympathy, human rights, and human justice...we are marshaling the four hundred million Negroes of the world to fight for the emancipation of the race and for the redemption of the country of our fathers."
● 1926 - The worst, deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. November history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength reported in the midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
● 1936 - In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.
● 1940 - First flight of the deHavilland mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
● 1941 - Finland joined the Anti-Comintern Pact.
● 1943 - Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina was re-established at the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
● 1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, UK, killing 160 shoppers.
● 1944 - World War II: Battle of Peleliu - At Peleliu, Palau, the American forces led by the general officer William H. Rupertus defeat the Japanese army led by Colonel Kunio Nakagawa.
● 1946 - U.S. Supreme Court awards $1.3 million for illegally taken Oregon lands to the Siletz, Alsea, Yaquina and Neschesne tribes.
● 1947 - After being cited for Contempt of Congress the previous day, the Hollywood Ten is blacklisted. Until McCarthy's investigation of the Army, no probe wins such headlines as congress' attempt to show that Hollywood heretics are infusing "un-American ideas" into films. Nineteen were subpoenaed for the Dies committee's Hollywood session, but Parnell Thomas postponed nine, including Humphrey Bogart, John Huston, and Lauren Bacall, fearing they would truthfully answer questions regarding their political affiliations. The remaining 10 insist on claiming their First-Amendment right not to tell the committee whether they were or had been Communists. Ginger Roger's mother testified her daughter had been asked to say in a film, "Share and share alike, that's democracy." Roger reveals this is (quote) - "definitely Communist propaganda." Her evidence of a Russian plot is backed by testimony by Ronald Reagan, Walt Disney, Gary Cooper, and Ayn Rand.
● 1947 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
● 1950 - The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die due to the storm.
● 1950 - The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
● 1952 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.
● 1957 - Radical Mexican muralist Diego Rivera dies, Mexico City, Mexico.
● 1958 - French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
● 1960 - The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated .
● 1963 - President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
● 1967 - Last flower-child hippie-type demos in New York City. After this, militant.
● 1968 - American socialist novelist, politician Upton Sinclair dies.
● 1969 - Pres. Nixon declares the U.S. will not engage in bacteriological warfare. At the time, as it turned out, the U.S. was actually testing such agents on its own citizens, unsuspecting American people.
● 1969 - Sir John Lennon sent his MBE back to the Queen along with the eloquent message - "Your Majesty, I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against `Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts.--With love, John Lennon of Bag."
● 1970 - Right-wing gay Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, 45, dies by his own hand (committing sepuku, ritual suicide) hours after finishing his tetralogy, "The Sea of Fertility" and an unsuccessful coup attempt.
Probably didn't want to see what the editor would do to it. Mishima remains a cult hero to right-wing, fascistic Japanese men who yearn for the days of pre-war nationalism.
● 1973 - Greek President George Papadopoulos is ousted in a military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis.
● 1973 - Student sit-ins begin in opposition to Greek military junta; 20 are killed, but the dictator is forced out.
● 1974 - Four days after two separate Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombs kill 21 and injure over 100 more in Birmingham, England, the British government outlaws the IRA in all of Great Britain, including Northern Ireland. The bombings were part of an ongoing crisis between the British government and the IRA that escalated in 1969 when British troops went into Northern Ireland to suppress Irish nationalist activity. British authorities reacted to public anger against the bombings by moving quickly to convict IRA members. Six suspects are soon captured, interrogated, and duly convicted; However, in 1998, in the face of widespread questioning of their guilt, a British court of appeals overturns the sentences of the "Birmingham Six," citing serious doubts about the legitimacy of the police evidence and the treatment of the suspects during their interrogation. Britain's brutal repression of Irish dissidents resulted in ongoing violence until, finally, a different, political approach led to apparently successful negotiations in 2001. A lesson for would-be enders of terrorism.
● 1975 - Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
● 1983 - Canadian postal workers cut postal rates from 82 cents to 10 cents.
● 1984 - 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
● 1984 - A KCR train derails between Sheung Shui and Fanling, Hong Kong.
● 1984 - Volunteers in Provincetown, Mass. save a humpback whale from suffocating in a fish net.
● 1986 - Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
● 1986 - Lt. Col. Oliver North fired by Reagan White House for being too obvious. While never imprisoned for his crime, North did suffer the punishment and humiliation of a successful career as a media commentator, speaker, and Senate candidate from Virginia. Crime never, ever pays.
● 1986 - The King Fahd Causeway was officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
● 1987 - Supertyphoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths attributed to the storm.
● 1988 - German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag.
● 1988 - Two thousand march in New York City to protest sale of furs. Over 50 other cities hold demonstrations.
● 1989 - Death of author Birago Ismael Diop. Educated as a veterinarian, became active in the Negritude movement in the 1930s and sought for a return to African cultural values.
● 1992 - Eighty-seven nations meet in Copenhagen, Denmark and agree to accelerate their schedules for phasing out ozone-depleting CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) chemicals by 1996. The U.S. opposes the agreement.
● 1992 - The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
● 1996 - An Ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. Powerful windstorm affects Florida, winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
● 1997 - During a traditional town "reenactment" of the Thanksgiving myth, Plymouth, Mass. police attack Native American demonstrators, beating and pepper-spraying several and arresting 25. {Making the reenactment more authentic than it had been for years.}
● 2000 - Baku earthquake took place.
● 2002 - Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov.
● 2005 - Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, as well as the possible nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities and 2 million of its citizens by Soviet-controlled forces, are released.
BIRTHS
● 1501 - Yi Hwang, Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
● 1562 - Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright (d. 1635)
● 1577 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (d. 1629)
● 1609 - Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I of England (d. 1669)
● 1638 - Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles II of England (d. 1705)
● 1703 - Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
● 1712 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of 'Signed French' (d. 1789)
● 1714 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
● 1778 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (d. 1856)
● 1814 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
● 1817 - John Bigelow, American statesman and author (d. 1911)
● 1835 - Andrew Carnegie, British-born industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919)
● 1841 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)
● 1843 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
● 1844 - Karl Benz, German engineer (d. 1929)
● 1845 - José Maria Eça de Queiróz, Portuguese novelist (d. 1900)
● 1846 - Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911)
● 1858 - Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922)
● 1862 - Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (d. 1901)
● 1869 - Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer (d. 1934)
● 1870 - Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (d. 1937)
● 1874 - Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
● 1880 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (d. 1960)
● 1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
● 1883 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic (d. 1939)
● 1883 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (d. 1968)
● 1887 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian physicist (d. 1943)
● 1890 - Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet and artist (d. 1918)
● 1895 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (d. 1991)
● 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979)
● 1895 - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986)
● 1896 - Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic (d. 1989)
● 1897 - Willie "The Lion" Smith African American Jazz Pianist
● 1900 - Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1947)
● 1901 - Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1948)
● 1902 - Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
● 1904 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
● 1904 - Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (d. 2005)
● 1904 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
● 1907 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (d. 1938)
● 1913 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)
● 1914 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
● 1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean President (d. 2006)
● 1920 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
● 1920 - Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor
● 1920 - Noel Neill, American actress
● 1922 - Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (d. 2005)
● 1923 - Mauno Koivisto, former president of Finland
● 1924 - Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
● 1926 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
● 1926 - Poul Anderson, American writer (d. 2001)
● 1933 - Kathryn Grant, American actress
● 1936 - Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer
● 1940 - Reinhard Furrer, American physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)
● 1940 - Joe Gibbs, American football coach
● 1941 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani author and spiritual leader (d. 2001)
● 1941 - Percy Sledge, American musician
● 1942 - Bob Lind, American folk singer and songwriter
● 1944 - Ben Stein, American actor
● 1945 - George Webster, American football player (d. 2007)
● 1946 - Bev Bevan, English rock drummer (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra)
● 1947 - Jonathan Kaplan, American filmmaker
● 1947 - John Larroquette, American actor
● 1948 - Jacques P. Dupuis, French Canadian politician
● 1951 - Bucky Dent, American baseball player
● 1951 - Bill Morrissey, American musician
● 1951 - Arturo Pérez Reverte, Spanish novelist and war reporter
● 1952 - Imran Khan, Pakistani test cricketer
● 1953 - Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron
● 1953 - Graham Eadie, Australian rugby league player
● 1956 - Hélène Goudin, Swedish politician
● 1957 - Bob Ehrlich, Jr., former Maryland governor
● 1959 - Charles Kennedy, British politician
● 1959 - Steve Rothery, British guitarist (Marillion)
● 1960 - Amy Grant, American singer
● 1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (d. 1999)
● 1960 - Kasey Smith, American keyboardist
● 1962 - Gilbert Delorme, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1963 - Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer.
● 1963 - Bernie Kosar, American football player
● 1964 - Mark Lanegan, American musician (Screaming Trees)
● 1965 - Cris Carter, American football player
● 1965 - Dougray Scott, Scottish television and film actor
● 1966 - Tim Armstrong, American musician (Rancid and The Transplants)
● 1967 - Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
● 1967 - Gregg Turkington, American comedian (as Neil Hamburger) and musician
● 1968 - Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress
● 1968 - Erick Sermon, American rap music artist
● 1968 - Jacqueline Hennessy, Canadian actress and talk show host
● 1968 - Galin Nikov, Bulgarian pole vaulter
● 1969 - Anthony Peeler, American basketball player
● 1971 - Christina Applegate, American actress
● 1971 - Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player
● 1973 - Erick Strickland, American basketball player
● 1976 - Donovan McNabb, American football player
● 1977 - Marcus Marshall, Australian racing driver
● 1978 - Shina Ringo, Japanese musician
● 1979 - Thea Gilmore, British songwriter
● 1979 - Brooke Haven, American porn star
● 1980 - Josh Lomberger, American professional wrestling backstage interviewer
● 1980 - Kushan Liyanarachchi, Prominent Live Buddhism Practitioner, Sri Lanka
● 1980 - Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer
● 1981 - Xabi Alonso, Spanish international footballer
● 1981 - Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush, daughters of George W. Bush and Laura Bush
● 1981 - Jared Jeffries, American basketball player
● 1983 - Kirsty Crawford, Scottish singer/songwriter
● 1984 - Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
● 1986 - Craig Gardner, English footballer
● 1986 - Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim, namesake of the Amber Alert system (d. 1996)
● 1986 - Katie Cassidy, American actress and singer
● 1987 - Joe Gatting, English footballer
● 1987 - Anwar Ali, Pakistan Under-19 Cricketer
DEATHS
● 311 - Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr
● 1034 - King Malcolm II of Scotland
● 1120 - William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (drowned) (b. 1104)
● 1185 - Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
● 1326 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
● 1374 - Philip II of Taranto, Emperor of Costantinople (b. 1329)
● 1456 - Jacques Cœur, French merchant
● 1560 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)
● 1626 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
● 1686 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (b. 1638)
● 1694 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
● 1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (b. 1643)
● 1748 - Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter (b. 1674)
● 1755 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b. 1687)
● 1785 - Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
● 1865 - Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)
● 1881 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (b. 1794)
● 1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
● 1885 - King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
● 1885 - Thomas Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
● 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)
● 1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866)
● 1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
● 1948 - Kanbun Uechi, karate master (b. 1877)
● 1950 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
● 1950 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Sedish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
● 1959 - Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
● 1965 - Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
● 1968 - Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)
● 1968 - Paul Siple, American explorer of the Antarctic. (b. 1908)
● 1970 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925)
● 1972 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886)
● 1973 - Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (b. 1928)
● 1974 - Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
● 1974 - U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
● 1978 - Elaine Esposito, American woman who hold the record for longest coma (b. 1934)
● 1981 - Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)
● 1985 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
● 1987 - Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
● 1989 - Alva R. Fitch, American World War II and Korean soldier (b. 1907)
● 1997 - Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
● 1997 - Kamuzu Banda, President of Malawi (b. ca. 1898)
● 1998 - Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
● 1998 - Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
● 2001 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Internationally renowned Spiritual Leader of Pakistan (b. 1941)
● 2002 - Karel Reisz, Czech theater director (b. 1926)
● 2005 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
● 2005 - Richard Burns, English WRC champion (b. 1971)
● 2006 - Sean Bell, American shooting victim (b. 1983)
● 2006 - Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (b. 1931)
● 2006 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (b. 1920)
● 2006 - Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
● 2006 - Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist and children's book publisher (b. 1916)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alnoth
● St. Catherine Laboure
● St. Catherine of Alexandria
● St. Elizabeth of Reute
● St. Jucunda
● St. Mercurius
● St. Mesrop
● St. Moses
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 12 (Civil Date: November 25)
● St. John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria.
● St. Nilus the Faster of Sinai.
● Prophet Ahijah (Achias) (I Kgs 11:29).
● Blessed John "the Hairy", fool for Christ at Rostov.
● St. Leon, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● New Martyr Sabbas Nigdelinus of Constantinople.
● New Martyr Nicholas of Constantinople.
● St. Nilus the Myrrh gusher of Mt. Athos.
● Synaxis of New Martyr of Optina: Anatole, Barnabas, Dositheus, Nektary, Nikon, Panteleimon, and Vincent.
● Repose of Righteous Cosmas of Birsk (1882) and Fr.
● Hilarion of Valaam and Sarov (1841).
● Commemoration of the Righteous monks and laymen buried at Optina Monastery.
● Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day (1943)
● Suriname - Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
● International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
● International Men's Day in Canada {Nearest thing to oxy-moron for holidays that I have seen.}
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING SEVEN SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.
Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.
Roman Catholic Saint of the Day
Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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